It is obvious that Odile and Yves have, once again, chosen a programme of great originality and variety for the Festival and that everyone who has not already booked should ring 04 6853 1000…
Friday 1st May Well, it’s May 1st (rabbits rabbits rabbits) and it’s raining with a chilly wind thrown in for good measure! Don’t care don’t care don’t care! The whole world has turned emerald green…
Saturday 4th April It has been some time since I last mumbled about anything but I am now back from a month in Guernsey and ready to mumble! After spending time with my daughters and…
Jane Mann: Three on the Table by Ellen Hall Between writing the must-have “A Day Out” for P.O. Life (of which she is co-editor), guide books and novels and being “a seaside landlady”, Jane…
Thursday 26th February Finally I am having the luxury of sitting down at the computer and writing a Mumble. Time has slipped away in a flurry of family visitors and guests in the barn. Life…
Solidarité: Lansac à la bougie (Solidarity: Lansac by candlelight) by Basil Howitt Basil Howitt relives some of the hairy and heartening moments of Tempête Klaus. It raged through the P.-O. at a top speed…
TGV Perpignan -Barcelona: Will I live long enough? by Basil Howitt Basil Howitt sends an update on the progress of the new TGV link between Perpignan and Barcelona. He also wonders if he…
Tuesday 30th December (not quite a January 2009 mumble but nearly!!!) Another Christmas has come and gone. All the preparations that were made have now all faded away and only the memories and a few…
D-L Nelson: Devotion to the Written Word By Ellen Hall I talked to D-L Nelson in a café in Argelès. She was in her regular seat facing the door, red hair and wide-rimmed glasses over…
Health Treatment in France – breast cancer by Penelope Parkinson When Frank and I moved to the P-O at the end of…